Joke WRLD Fest, the debut festival from the Joke WRLD comedy collective, is scheduled for August 14 and 15 in downtown St. Pete, with the collective's Instagram announcing 75-plus comedians, 22 hours of stand-up, and programming distributed across four venues within walking distance of one another.
Coastal Creative at 2201 1st Ave S serves as festival headquarters, with shows extending to three satellite rooms: Steep Station, Off-Central Players, and Spitfire Comedy House. Running four simultaneous venues allows a 75-person-plus comedian roster to avoid the scheduling compression of a single main stage.
The named lineup includes Greg Fitzsimmons, Sam Tripoli, Joe DeRosa, Jeremiah Watkins, and Maddy Smith. Per the collective's Instagram, the two-day program also includes roast battles, more than ten live podcast tapings, and a Comedian Home Run Derby at Campbell Park — the last of those pulling programming out of the theater circuit entirely.
Spitfire Comedy House and Off-Central Players are established St. Pete performance spaces; their inclusion as satellite venues means the festival is distributing programming into existing rooms rather than building temporary stages. Per the collective's Instagram, this is Joke WRLD's first festival production — making August 14–15 both a debut and a proof-of-concept for the format.
Full ticketing details and a complete schedule had not been released at the time of this report.
The festival runs August 14–15. Watch the collective's channels for full lineup and ticketing announcements as the dates approach.
